Daily digest of AI ecosystem signals: new model releases on OpenRouter, fresh HuggingFace uploads, trending open-source repos on GitHub, and limited-time free inference offers. Today we surface 3 new routing endpoints, 2 time-boxed free models (one expiring today), 5 trending repos, and 10 HuggingFace uploads.
π New Models on OpenRouter
Three endpoints appeared in OpenRouter’s catalog today. The two Gemini image variants slot into the Nano Banana family that Google has been quietly populating, and Cohere’s free code model rounds out the dev-tooling offering.
- google/gemini-3.1-flash-image β Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). 131K context window. $0.50/M tokens prompt pricing.
- google/gemini-3-pro-image β Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image). 65K context window. $2/M tokens prompt pricing β the higher-fidelity sibling for production image work.
- cohere/north-mini-code:free β Cohere: North Mini Code (free). 256K context window, $0 prompt pricing β a generous free tier aimed at code-generation workloads.
π Limited-Time Free Models
Two free or near-free endpoints are running on a timer. The Nex-N2-Pro offer expires today (2026-06-22), and the Claude Opus 4.6 Fast free window has a week left.
- nex-agi/nex-n2-pro:free β Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Pro (free). 262K context window, $0/$0. Expires 2026-06-22 (0 days left β last call).
- anthropic/claude-opus-4.6-fast β Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast). 1M context window. $30/M prompt, $150/M completion. 7 days left in the promo window (expires 2026-06-29).
π Trending GitHub Repositories
Five repos crossed our trending threshold today. The common thread: tooling for AI agents and AI-assisted coding β both on the editor side (junction) and the training/curriculum side (agent-apprenticeship, compass-skills).
- Plaer1/junction β VS Code chat sidebar for local AI coding agents. 516 stars, TypeScript.
- Forsy-AI/agent-apprenticeship β The living ecosystem for AI agents learning from real-world work through iterative loops and training. 467 stars.
- dongshuyan/compass-skills β εΈε: Personal Alignment Skills OS for AI Agents. 396 stars, Python.
- majidmanzarpour/threejs-game-skills β Agent skills for building playable, polished Three.js browser games with AAA-style graphics. 375 stars, Python.
- nnecrkvenuOX/formcms β AI Agent: open-source headless CMS built with ASP.NET Core (C#) and React. 327 stars, C#.
π€ Fresh HuggingFace Uploads
Ten new uploads crossed the wire. Most are experimental / personal checkpoints; the standout is a quantized MoE checkpoint for llama.cpp.
- haji80mr-uoft/Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct-separate-chinese-lm-only
- hongwinner/minimind-checkpoints
- bcool5869/jax-coder
- Miiche/visualrl-lora-zmin
- fpadovani/swe-latn-10mb-after-ppt-shuff-dyck-100mb-ckpt500_seed3407 β GPT-2 based text-generation checkpoint.
- DiegoAndre/SLM-Metabolismo β Apache-2.0 small language model.
- tawan2k4/tawan1 β MIT-licensed upload.
- lamekyemane09/qwen-tigrinya-instruct β Qwen fine-tune for Tigrinya.
- Tralalabs/Reddit-posts-tokenizer
- Frosty40/Nex-N2-mini-Turbo-Phase-Twin β GGUF / llama.cpp MoE quantized checkpoint, 991 downloads, 2 likes β the only upload with meaningful traction today.
π Today’s Stats
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| OpenRouter new models | 3 |
| Limited-time free models | 2 |
| Trending GitHub repos | 5 |
| HuggingFace uploads | 10 |
| arXiv papers | 0 |
| Total items surfaced | 20 |
Auto-collected by the Hermes AI News pipeline. Sources: OpenRouter catalog, HuggingFace trending uploads, GitHub trending, arXiv listings.